[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 11, 2013)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D854-D855]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





          COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
committee during the 113th Congress; to be immediately followed by a 
hearing to examine essential elements of housing finance reform, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the 
committee during the 113th Congress, Time to be announced, Room to 
be announced.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Nisha Desai Biswal, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, 10 a.m., SD-
419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee 
on Primary Health and Aging, to hold hearings to examine dental 
crisis in America, focusing on the need to address the cost, 10 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 987, 
to maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing 
conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by 
certain persons connected with the news media, S. 357, to encourage, 
enhance, and integrate Blue Alert plans throughout the United States 
in order to disseminate information when a law enforcement officer 
is seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, an original 
resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee for the 113th 
Congress, and the nominations of Cornelia T. L. Pillard, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, 
Landya B. McCafferty, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of New Hampshire, Brian Morris, and Susan P. Watters, both 
to be a United States District

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Judge for the District of Montana, Jeffrey Alker Meyer, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and Kenneth 
Allen Polite, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Seapower and 
Projection Forces, hearing on Undersea Warfare Capabilities and 
Challenges, 9 a.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Full Committee, hearing entitled 
``The Semi-Annual Report of the Consumer Financial Protection 
Bureau'', 9 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Global 
Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, 
hearing entitled ``The Troubling Path Ahead for U.S.-Zimbabwe 
Relations'', 12 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic 
Opportunity, hearing entitled ``A Review of the Performance of the 
Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (VRAP) and the Homeless 
Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP)'', 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Full Committee, 
hearing entitled ``Ongoing Intelligence Activities'', 9 a.m., HVC-
304. This is a closed hearing.